Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, LATE VISITOR, by CLARA HYDE


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First Line: The charwoman laid down her mop
Last Line: Left no footprint there.


The charwoman laid down her mop.
The office clock waited
With hands abated.
Strange, she should stop,
Resurgently drop
The slippery soap.
Why should she kneel
Vised like steel?
Her smile was silly
And set. The stilly
Silence was unbroken,
No word was spoken;
Yet, strange rustling proved
Soft shadows moved --
Listened to catch
An opened latch.
Tensely there surged
Pity for her
Whose life had hedged
A twisted banister.
And He who passed the scrubbed marble stair
Left no footprint there.





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